Earlier this week, we dropped our latest mega-countdown, the Top 100 TV Shows of the 2000s. Which is all well and good, but the truth is that finding 100 great shows was a lot harder than you’d think. We did a little calculating around here, and it turns out that for every good TV show, there are exactly 81.37 horrible ones (more if you count cable news). By that math, there were 8137 terrible shows on in the last 10 years, so we’d appreciate a little gratitude for the fact that we just narrowed those down to the 10 most terribly executed, forgettable, execrable wastes of network money of the Aughts. Read on, and please, PLEASE don’t go looking for clips of this stuff. Well, except for the ones we dug up. There’s only so much a person can take…

The Michael Richards Show (NBC)
Air dates: 10/24/00-12/19/00
Can’t Miss Concept: Remember Cosmo Kramer, the lovable kook from Seinfeld? Yeah, well, let’s not call him that anymore but still ask him to act the same! And let’s give him an ensemble without any chemistry! And let’s let that guy who hosts the late-night talk show on Spike create it!

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The Tony Rock Project (MyNetworks)
Air dates: 10/10/08-3/11/09
Can’t Miss Concept: Because black people do shit like THIS! And white people do shit like THAT! Black and white people SO CRAAAAAAAZY.

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Emeril (NBC)
Air dates: 9/25/01-12/11/01
Can’t Miss Concept: You know who has incredible comic timing thanks to years not spent honing their craft? Loudmouthed chefs! Wait, no. But to be fair, they do say “BAM!” a lot.

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Baby Bob (CBS)
Air dates: 3/18/02-7/4/03
Can’t Miss Concept: Talking babies. What? Adults love a talking baby. Especially when it’s the exact same baby from a late-’90s ad campaign for Freeinternet.com. And it’s surrounded by real-life accomplished grown-up actors who at no point are silently cursing their agents.

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Brothers (Fox)
Air dates: 9/25/09-
Can’t Miss Concept: The only thing funnier than a football player trying to act is a dude in a wheelchair! Wait, please, our sides! We can’t breathe! *Keel*

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My Big Fat Greek Life (CBS)
Air dates: 2/24/03-4/13/03
Can’t Miss Concept: Everyone knows overweight neurotic swarthy white people are absolutely oozing with ethnic charm. And possibly olive oil.

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Come to Papa (NBC)
Air dates: 6/3/04-6/24/04
Can’t Miss Concept: Okay, we just stumbled onto this show one Sunday afternoon four or five years ago and were convinced it was some kind of hallucination until we just found proof. Remember how stand-up comedians were supposed to be sitcom gold? Yeah, well. On the plus side, though, Steve Carell was in it.

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Viva Laughlin (CBS)
Air dates: 10/18/07-10/21/07
Can’t Miss Concept: Cop Rock failed in the ’80s because it was a cop show that was also a musical. Well, this one is set in the world of casinos and is also a musical! And while the characters are singing, you can hear the original songs playing in the background, complete with vocal tracks! You may back the money truck up now.

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Meet the Browns (TBS)
Air dates: 1/7/09-
Can’t Miss Concept: Because every time Tyler Perry craps out something that TBS pre-orders 100 episodes of, the only thing that could possibly improve would be a sitcom that stars a guy in old-man drag and is the worst display of buffoonery since Trick Daddy ate chicken in that one video.

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Blind Justice (ABC)
Air dates: 3/8/05-6/21/05
Can’t Miss Concept: You know the phrase “justice is blind”? Well, this guy’s a detective and is actually blind! So in this case, justice is literally blind! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wait, it’s not a sitcom?

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That’s right, another decade of our youth lost to the boob tube. We could’ve run a marathon, we could’ve started our own business, we could’ve joined the Peace Corps. But we didn’t. Instead we spent hours (upon hours upon hours) parked in front of our television set zoned out like crackheads. There ain’t no shame in our game—in fact, we’re proud to share our extensive knowledge of the idiot box with our totally comprehensive guide to the 100 Best TV Shows of the decade. Grab a drink, your favorite snack, and of course the remote…

• CLICK HERE TO SEE THE TOP 100 TV SHOWS OF THE DECADE!

Believe it or not, Steven Seagal has been down with the police for almost 20 years, and we’re not talking about the cop he played in one of our favorite action movies either. Yeah, this guy has been working the night shift at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office and locking up criminals from the Greater New Orleans area for the past two decades. The biggest surprise is that someone is just now making a Cops-style reality show about it. Better late than never. After watching this trailer, we’ll probably see what it’s about when Steven Seagal: Lawman debuts this Fall.

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See, back in 2003, cartoonists Kelly Shane and Woody Compton released a New Yorker-style comic strip titled…wait for it…“Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy.” Coincidence? Perhaps. But in an interview, MacFarlane describes “Cavalcade” as “animated versions of the one-frame cartoons you might see in The New Yorker, only edgier.” You’d think a guy who created two identical television shows just by changing a dog into an alien would be a little more sensitive to the idea of originality. Read the 2003 comic strips below and judge for yourself.

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We'd be fronting if we said there wasn't a span growing up when we didn't tune into Beverley Hills 90210. Before Kelly was getting trapped in fires and Brenda re-located, the show served as a solid eye-candy fest for adolescent males.

Now, the CW is prepping a spin-off series as part of their fall 2008 line-up, with a fresh-faced new cast. After seeing the first preview of the show, we got to wondering if the new batch of ladies would be able to compete with the O.G trifecta of Kelly Taylor, Brenda Walsh and Donna Martin. Check out the matchups (including a bonus mom vs. mom showdown) after the jump and vote.


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